Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-11


GEORGIA.
Gibson ia to have telegraph office
Dawson's brass band has dsbanded.
Thomas Superior Court convenes to.
day.
W. d. Pierce plowed some corn on his
farm near Perry last week.
Two fast new steamers will be put on
the river from Blakely this fall.
1t is suggested that the Cobb Legion
cavalry hold a reunion in Macon during
State fair week.
1t is reported that an old negro woman
100 years old, living near Gibson, is out
ting her third set OF teeth.
A little negro child about two months
old was smothered To death near Buena
Vista last Saturday night. The child
was sleeping with its mother, and /, is
thought that she accidentally rolled upon
1t during tue night.
A business man of Macon, and a large
merchant, told one OF Fort Valleys prom
inent citizens last week that As soon as
the first whistle OF the Atlanta and Haw-
kinsville WAS heard ne proposed to open
up wholesale house there.
A gentleman Of Fort Valley was offered
option on three and a half acres of land
In the town limits some time since 1T
81 800, and it is now thought he will take
IL and have it cut up into building lots,
Thereby realizing a handsome little sum
on his investment.
Measles is the prevailing epidemic In
lhe neighborhoOd OF Church Hill, Marion
county, now, and is proving fatal in many
instances. Two persons We're buried
there Thursday, having died from that
malady. 1t is also dissolving schools and
rstarding, to great extent, .he farmers
In the progress OF their work.
Mike Freeman, who escaped tho peui-
tentiary a short while ago, is living round
the neighborhood near Moons Ferry,
making ugly threats to Kill neigh bOrs,
and having high old time. The COM
munity is excited, and occasionally chase
Mike with dogs, but fail to capture him.
There is a reward of $75 offered for him.
The water power on the two rivers,
0conee and Appalachee, are sufficient to
1riye enough machinery to manufacture
MI the goods the State of Georgia can use.
The water power at Barnetts shoals Is
equal to that of Lowell, Mass, and any
amount OF machinery can be run there,
and no high water Will ever interfere to
stop work.
Lloyd Ransom, a negro we'll known in
pullman, was arrested Wednesday night
by the night Waterman for shooting into
Arch Smiths house. The Waterman
locked him up in the calaboose, where he
stayed until Thursday morning, when he
was taken out and placed In jail. The
shooting appears to have been malicious
and without prOvooatiOn.
DR.. W. G. Pstrick last week raised a
subscription for the purpose OF having a
census taken OF the suburbs of Rome,
This census has been taken and the su.
burbs show as follewe: South Rome
J.151, East Rome 800, ForrestvilIs !, 500.
The increase ever the last census ia about
Is per cent. 1t is estimated that the
population of Rome, together with It's
nuburbs, is between 10000 and $4,000
people.
4 Report reaches Watkinsville of a terri
bic wite-beating nine miles from there, 1t
II said that Willis j. Dudley ehoked his
8ife until she was almost dead, then
Kicked her out at the door and drove her
from home. The grand jury will call Dud-
ley to account for this outrage. This is
not the first of his cruelty. He had an-
Ufher wife, who was divorced from him
because she could not live with him. She
- still living.
The Quitman authorities have called a
new election to decide the matter OF
"bonds' or mo bonds," for the purpose
OF building town hall, market house,
polled against bonds" before, and the
certainty that the measure would be car.
rled caused many wha favored it TO stay
away from the polls, thus leaving the
vote short of the two-thirds necessary to
decide the question In the Affirmative.
AS a slight evidence or how real estate
Sc approaching in value at Fort Valley
the following instances are given which
occurred day or two since: TIE owner
nj store house, which he purchased
three months ago for $3.50, was offered
SLIGO cash, another was offered $500 ON
IFS trade made some time since, and a
prominent gentleman OF that town refused
f2b0 for not quite half an acre. All OF
,he above parties refused, feelin assured
that they could get more. A gentleman
WHO ownsquite large tract OF land near
the city reused large cash offer for1t,
Athens Banner w atehman: A gentle.
man was III Athens Friday who brings ua
some l0Og-expected news from Birming-
ham. Ala. He says that one day this
week $1,000, 900 worth OF paper there went
TO protest, snd real estate il feverish and
sxcited and in no demand. He says the
people are greatly excited, tor they real
Ire the fact that the predicted collapse is
now about on them, and il will ruin thou
sands. This is the first serious financial
disaster that has come upon Birmiug
ham, and IL will doubtless be quickly
followed by others that will prick the
bubble Of fictitious values, and bring
property IN tne place down TO its leglti-
mate price. Our informant further says
tnat the ore found around Birmingham ID
uDiy ut ;Or stoves and piping, and can
Ityer be made into steel. This, OF course,
renders " unit for rails and greatly con-
tracts It's sale.
The City Marshal OF Cuthbert reports a
sad case. An old lady living In Clay
county was induced by her son to sell
her little home IN Georgia and come to
him ia Texas. Sne soon found cash
purchaser aud last year left TO meet the
object OF her affections in Texas, longing
iog tnat pr0tectio SO essential TO Old age
II vas not long before he induced her TO
turn over 10 him the little sum realized
from the sale of her all ia Georgia. When
he mad 10 we'll in hand he left for parts
unknown, ANA the poor old lady in a
strange place and among strangers mad
no other alternative but 10 seek food and
shelter IN po0r-house. A few charitRbly
disposed, noting her distressed condition,
raised a purse to send her back 20 her
old home and friends. She arrived in
CutAOert on Friday. and In telling the
above sad story gave vent TO her grief In
copicus tesrs.
At Albany Friday the grand jury found
\ true bill against II. II. Fudge Tor
larceny rom the house. Fudge, a. it's
well known. WAS Apptapd nv Ia prpa